Excerpt from William Pinkney; Lawyer, Statesman, Diplomat: Address of Henry Flanders, Esq. Before the New Jersey State Bar Association; June 16, 1906 He was twelve years old at the time of the Declaration of Independence, and even at that early age was already a sturdy American, and as a boy espoused the cause of the Colonies with fervor. His father, on the other hand, was an unflinching Tory, and in consequence was involved in very distressing troubles. During the war his person was seized, his property confiscated, and his family impoverished. The close of the war found young Pinkney a clerk in a drug store at Baltimore. He had joined a debating society of the town, and the society had announced a public debate; Pinkney being one of the champions. The forthcoming de bate was much talked of and created as much expectancy in the little community as a new opera would at the present day, when Baltimore has become an important city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.